The Expense Report Line Item Approval feature enables principals, project managers, and/or supervisors to review, and then approve or reject, individual expense charges for their projects. They only see expenses charged to their projects, not actual employee expense reports.
This feature can help you maintain greater control over your project expenses and ensure that all expenses are posted to the appropriate projects.
Expense Report line item approval only applies to expense entries made using the Vision Time and Expense application.
To use this feature, your system administrator must first:
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Activate the feature in Expense Report Configuration.
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Select which projects require line item approval.
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Determine who can approve line item labor charges.
Expense Report Line Item Approval vs. Expense Report Approval
Expense Report line item approval and expense report approval are two separate approval options that function independently of each other.
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Use Expense Report line item approval to require principals, project managers, or supervisors to approve
individual expense report line entries before expense reports can be posted.
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Use Expense Report approval to require a group, company, or system administrator to approve
expense reports for each employee at your firm before expense reports can be posted.
Your system administrator can require any one of the following: